Teenage Fanclub has a new album! It was released May 31st, off of one of my all time favorite labels Merge records. It’s called Shadows.
Here’s a quote from Reid Davis from paste magazine:

Long-running Scots deliver more pop purity.
Even after two decades as a band, it has to be intimidating when Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake brings in another hook-laden pop masterpiece, and then Gerard Love or Raymond McGinley have to offer something that matches up.

They’ve been described as sounding like an explosion in a machine shop, a drum set falling down stairs, a wolverine and a trout in a blender, ice cream and pickles, talentless geeks and a several other flattering epithets.
King Buzzo describes the Melvins music as Captain Beefheart playing heavy metal… I guess that’s a pretty good description.

If you’ve liked the Melvins over the past 25/26 years they’ve been playing you’re going to love this album.

by Sinead O’Conner
I heard it on the radio this morning on my drive in and thought, “Damn this was a good song.”
“Nothing Compares 2 U” is a song written in the 1980s by Prince for The Family. Sinead covered it on her 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.